1480 G.B. - "A MAP OF UPWARDS OF 25 MILES ROUND THE TOWN OF BIRMINGHAM" (1796) copper engraved, folding road map 35"x 28", dissected on linen. Surveyed & published by James Sherriff, Birmingham. Large, pictorial, title cartouche incorporating a view of the town, plus a pictorial scale depicting surveyors' instruments. Very detailed & informative but surface toned and many of the linen folds separated and needing repair. */** £40
1481 G.B. - DERBYSHIRE: 1830 Hand-coloured engraved map by Greenwood & Co. with vignette illustration of Chatsworth House; centre fold & some light toning but attractive. (FRAMED & GLAZED SO NOT SUITABLE FOR POSTING). **/*** £60
1482 G.B.- CRUCHLEY'S RAILWAY & STATION MAP OF YORKSHIRE (c.1862) very detailed and hand coloured 38"x 46", dissected on linen & folding into gilt lettered, embossed boards with neatly repaired spine. Published by G.F. Cruchley, Fleet Street. Specialised railway map based on the Ordnance Survey. Forerunner of those later published by the Railway Clearing House. Handsome publication. *** £100
1483 G.B. - COLLINS' STANDARD MAP OF LONDON (c.1863) detailed, hand coloured street map 26"x 35", dissected on linen & folding into printed folder. Published by Edward Stanford. Extending from Limehouse west to Notting Hill and Hampstead south to Peckham, distinguishing the recently introduced postal districts. Integral 18pp. A-Z booklet containing 3,000 street references. *** £40
1484 G.B. - "MAP OF HERTFORDSHIRE SHEWING ALL THE RAILWAYS & STATIONS" (c.1865) detailed, hand coloured, folding map, dissected on linen 19"x 23". Published by Smith & Son, Charing Cross. Attractive, detailed map depicting roads & railways, incl. proposed route of the new Midland Railway extension, authorised in 1864. Suitable for framing. *** £40
1485 G.B. - Cleeve's 1971 Ogilby's Road Maps of England and Wales 1675. Reproduced from Ogilby's 'Britannia' 1675 in large format (280 x 400 mm). Also a folder with approx. 12 reproductions from engravings and several maps, all with German interest; and some reproduction Notices etc., from the National Postal Museum. £50
1486 INDIA: c1770 large-scale hand coloured map of the Kingdom of Bengal by Schley (360 x 310mm). Also c1780 finely detailed coloured French map entitled "Theatre de la Guerre sur la Cote de Coromandel" (320 x 250mm). Both framed & glazed. (2). *** £50
1487 INDIA & INDO-CHINA (c.1790; 290mm. x 225mm.): Fine detailed coloured map of the "East Indies" stretching from Persia, through India, Tibet and Indo-China as far as Canton with the Maldives, Sumatra, and part of Borneo (unsigned but most attractive and fresh) and ITALY (1818; 310mm. x 300mm.) map showing territories of pre-Roman tribes, engraved on copper with borders hand-coloured and originally an illustration for Rollin's "Histoire Romaine" (attractive despite a fold). (2 maps). *** £30
1488 INDIA AND INDO-CHINA, 1821: Splendid large map (660mm. x 550mm.) by BruÈ of Paris for "Atlas Universel" engraved in much detail with embossed authorising impression & showing the then independent states in coloured outlines. (FRAMED AND GLAZED - UNSUITABLE FOR POSTING). *** £40
1489 NATAL: Coloured map measuring 4" x 5‡" showing principal natural features, surrounding countries with their names at the time (1890's?) and Indian Ocean. **** £20
1490 NETHERLANDS, 1771-c.1850: Group of maps & plans incl. fine 1771 plan of Amsterdam with detailed key and vignette, c.1740 engravings of Utrecht & Middleburgh and three atlas pp. with maps of Holland dated 1816, 1840 & c.1850 (some toning on latter). (5 sheets). **/*** £30
1491 PALESTINE (1629) by William BLAEUW of Amsterdam: Fine, hand-coloured map on two folio size pages (printed area 500 x 370mm) with elaborate cartouche flanked by figures of Moses and a Rabbi and showing the territories of the Biblical tribes; the reverse bears two pages of descriptive text in Latin. Folded and with light water-staining but an attractive example of Blauew's work. ** £40
1492 PORTUGAL - LISBON: 1833 Line drawn relief map (approx. 15" x 12") of "LISBON/(LISBOA)" with a little colouring to show bank of the River Tagus, the 1375 city walls & other features. Lower half of sheet has engraved view of the city looking towards the river from inland with the castle dominating the skyline whilst at top right there is a small segment showing "THE ENVIRONS OF LISBON". Attractive. *** £40
1493 PORTUGUESE COLONIES - THE AZORES: Coloured 1794 map (approx. 18" x 25") entitled "CHART/ OF THE/A«ORES (HAWKS) ISLANDS,/called also /FLEMISH AND WESTERN ISLANDS/LONDON /Publifhed 12th. May 1794 by LAURIE & WHITTLE. No.53 Fleet Street." As well as the disposition of the islands, this large map also has two insets of the roads of Porto Pin & Punta Delgada plus an additional small scale chart of the islands whilst at the bottom left are several approach views from sea level. Central fold but very attractive. *** £90
1494 PORTUGUESE COLONIES - CAPE VERDE ISLANDS: 1746 Coloured map (approx. 11" x 8") entitled "CARTE/des Ifles du/CAP VERD....." with central compass radiating lines & detailed charting of the various islands incl. topography, towns etc. Light central fold & very minor spotting. An early & colourful map. **/*** £75
1495 PORTUGUESE COLONIES - CAPE VERDE: Coloured map (approx. 21‡" x 17") probably mid-18th century entitled "INSUL DE CABO VERDE/Olim/HESPERIDES,/Sive/GORGADES:/Belgice/De LOUTE EYSANDEN" and at bottom right "Apud G.VALK et P. SCHENCK". Centre fold and very light staining but most attractive. ** £120
1496 SOUTH AFRICA - POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS MAPS, 1962: Two coloured maps (1:1,500,000) with enlargement of selected areas showing road and rail networks, post towns, sorting roads etc. Printed on paper and rolled. *** £30
1497 SWITZERLAND: Hand-coloured map (95mm. x 115mm.) showing Zug as it appeared c.1352 produced by Jansonius c.1700 (vertical fold with tiny loss of colour but attractive). *** £20
1498 SWITZERLAND - 'EAST ALPS ROAD MAP' incl. Tyrol, Dolomites and Vienna (Geographia, London, c.1920), 'SWITZERLAND & THE ITALIAN LAKES' (Bartholomew, Edinburgh, also c.1920), 3 maps of/ guides to Lugano & region and 2 re. Interlaken (all 1930's). Some rusting/toning but sound overall. (7). ** £40
1499 TROYE'S MAPS OF THE TRANSVAAL (1892) folding sheets II & III, both 30"x 22", colour printed on glazed linen. Very detailed, scale 1" = 9 miles. Depicting most of the Transvaal, north of Pretoria, incl. the Zoutspansberg goldfields, hundreds of individually named Boer farms and newly opened & projected railways. Engraved & lithographed in Switzerland for Fehr & Dubois, Pretoria. ***. £60
1500 'A SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY etc.' by Thomas Bankes (nd c1780): Huge foolscap volume (992pp) inc. a large number of copper-plate engravings of peoples & places of the world, frontis. showing the apotheosis of Captain Cook (the work is completely 'up to date' with the discoveries of Cook as the title-page boasts), plus a quantity of large folding maps (some damaged); supplements deal with currencies & the use of globes. Binding disintegrating , contents generally sound / spotted. **/*** £50
1501 UNITED STATES, c1850-90: A group of maps of parts of the US or the entire continent, taken from Victorian atlases, many hand-coloured and measuring up to 240 x 310mm. Decorative and informative. (11 items). **/*** £40
1502 UNITED STATES (1866): Pages from 'Mitchell's Intermediate Geography' (230 x 300mm) with hand-coloured engraved maps of different sections of the U.S.A., each with an illustration and geographical text on reverse plus tabular information etc. A little 'thumbed', with edge-staining but attractive and unusual. (11 maps). **/*** £70
1503 WORLD-WIDE: Accumulation of colour-printed maps removed from atlases c1870 - 1940, many double-sided, with emphasis on European countries. Fine. (73 pages). **/*** £36
MILITARY - PRE 1900
1504 THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR (AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE PERIOD) - ORIGINAL PAGES FROM THE OFFICIAL GOVERNOR's JOURNAL WRITTEN DURING THE SIEGE; 21-28 Nov. 1779 manuscript pages (toned but sound and complete) from John Ranelagh's own Journal of the Siege, listing letters smuggled in and out of the Rock via Morocco and Portugal, inc. some at a cost of "£196-2s-0d" sent via a smuggler's boat "from Barbary" (the smuggler got £50 himself - it was a risky business!). Rare survival from this period of the Franco-Spanish blockade of Gibraltar in sympathy with the Americans during the War of Independence. [With a note that these sheets were salvaged in Gibraltar from the original Journal that was damaged by "flood water in the basements of the Colonial Secretary's Office" there.] Rare historical material. £120
1505 FRENCH REVOLUTION: Detailed MS draft memoir written (in English) by Moses Merac, a British Huguenot, conscripted into the National Guard during an ill-timed visit to family in Bordeaux in August 1792 to suppress the Royalist uprising in the VendÈe under General Baudry - he gives a very detailed account; on return to Bordeaux, he was interned as a British subject in the Fort du Ha, as a reprisal for the British attack on Toulon; released & banned from entering any French port as an 'enemy alien', he bribed a ship's captain to take him, in disguise, to Hamburg, where this account seems to have been written in 1795. Written on 6‡ sides of large folio, age-stained & fragile with some split folds. What a story! ** £100
1506 BRITISH FORCES IN LOW COUNTRIES, 1794: Two memos written by Col. George Williamson, Paymaster of Ordnance, from camps at 'Ousterhout' & 'Nimengan' regarding payments inc. one to the Duke of York's aide-de-camp, with various counter-signatures & notes; also an 1808 letter from Williamson at the 'Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea'. In addition, a small piece with the signature of the 7th Earl of Cardigan while still Col. Lord Brudenell, c1830. (4 items).**/*** £40
1507 1806 BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: Lengthy letter (no postal markings) sent from the Cape by Lt. W.G.Napier, R.A. to his mother reporting the impending attack on the Isle de France (Mauritius) "the attack is to be made this month or the beginning of the next by a force from India of 8,000 men and 2,000 from this...General Abercrombie commands the Expedition"; Napier was part of the force sent to reclaim the Cape from the Dutch who were allowing French ships to shelter & provision there; he fought at Waterloo and later settled at Tintinhull Manor (Somerset). A rare item from this all but forgotten expedition. *** £75
1508 MILITARY CHAPLAIN TO WELLINGTON: Series of letters written 1809-17 by the Rev. Samuel Briscoe, attached to the Duke of Wellington's staff in France, mainly to his sister at Stockport & London; many seem to have been carried by hand or put into the post in London. An 1810 letter mentions refugees from Badajoz and the behaviour of French troops; most are from 1814-17 and describe Restoration Paris - the hero-worship of the Duke, floating the idea that he would become military governor of Paris, the pillaging of the Louvre, Duc de Berri's wedding, Tuileries balls, balloon ascent from the Champs du Mars and the first Waterloo Dinner (1816) etc. Also 4 or 5 letters written to Briscoe. A fascinating lot. (29 letters). £200
1509 CRIMEAN WAR: Group of 21 letters (postal markings on one only) written by Cornet (later Major-General) J.Lynden-Bell to his family in Ireland from Fort Verdala (Malta), Camp Boulaka (Gallipoli) & Varna on his way to the Crimea in 1854 then from the trenches in front of Sebastopol throughout 1855. Much incidental detail - French action at Inkerman, Sardinian soldiers, vivandiÈres - but comment centres on the poor morale of the besiegers; after the abortive assault on the City:"Lord Raglan should ...be recalled and then tried by Court Martial and shot before he can murder any more of us!" and "The Russians sent two large Iron Steamers out of Sebastopol [which] got in rear of the French intrenchments and fired at them ...to the disgrace of Admiral Dundas who should have had steamers cruising near the entrance to the harbour" and in December: "Sebastopol will not fall for some time if ever, I look upon it as a second Siege of Troy!" & "The Hospital arrangements are bad - there are rarely more than two medecines to be obtained...". Also a bundle of related documents inc. 1859 fine printed membership certificate of the Freemasons of Ireland, a sheaf of letters of condolence on the General's death (1934) and a series of 20th century copies of family letters of 1770-95, some of which deal with earlier military Bells. A most interesting archive. **/*** £500
1510 CRIMEAN WAR: Series of contemporary steel-engraved views (265x180mm) published by The London Printing & Publishing Co. c1857 as book illustrations, most featuring animated battle scenes inc. Baltic, fine engraving of the interior of The Redan based on a photograph by Robertson of Constantinople etc.; most have some water-staining but could be improved. (22 items). ** £100
1511 CRIMEAN WAR - BATTLE OF THE ALMA: Finely-engraved map of the area (265x340mm) produced as a book illustration c1857, with positions of Allied & Russian forces, ships, movements etc., some hand-coloured detail, set within a patterned border; some general ageing & dustiness, central binding fold otherwise sound & attractive. **/*** £20
1512 INDIAN MUTINY - ORIGINAL TELGRAM TEXT FORWARDED TO COL. NAPIER AT CAWNPORE; Manuscript mesasage headed "From Calcutta 29 Decr. [1857] 5PM, Tuesday From Secry/ to Govt. of India Military Dept. To Cawnpore. To Colonel Napier. Words 47." It advises that "...the Despatches have all come to hand". Rare item received, written out and delivered in Cawnpore itself, during this difficult period when telegraphic communication was the safest and quickest method in a volatile Mutiny area.The campaign was in full swing at this date; a large rebel force had just been defeated outside Cawnpore on 6th Dec. 1857. Rare survival. £80
MILITARY - BOER WAR
1513 WARREN EXPEDITION: 1900 (2 May) 3pp. autographed letter written by General Charles Warren in Rondebosch to Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony, during the former's expedition against the Boers, requesting an appointment and originally enclosing plan of Spion Kop; Milner's initialled annotation concerning the said appointment appears at the top of the first page. Scarce. *** £90
1514 "CHARIVARI-ALBUM/Boers et Anglais": 1900 (? March) 20pp. illustrated journal produced in France consisting entirely of large monochrome pro-Boer (and thus overtly and powerfully anti-British) cartoons; paper ageing, fragile page edges, covers repaired with music tape and pages loose but a scarce item. ** £50
1515 "DE AMSTERDAMMER WEEKBLAD VOOR NEDERLAND": c.1900 Four large pp. from different issues each with pro-Boer cartoons, caricatures and photographs on one side and adverts. on the reverse (folded in half, paper ageing and fragile edges but unusual) and "L'ASSIETTE AU BEURRE" (August, 1901 16pp. issue entitled "Les Souverains") consisting entirely of full page caricatures of national leaders such as front cover two colour portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm with President Kruger on back cover (paper very aged and fragile at edges but prints would frame well). (5 items). ** £50
1516 SOUTH AFRICAN WAR THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE (1900-1901) 18 diff. cards 3‡"x 7", each with pair of real photos, published by Underwood & Underwood. Depicting a variety of scenes, incl. troops in action (C.I.V., N.Z., etc.), wounded, hospital train, P.O.W's, military transport, artillery, etc. £40
1517 "THE RETURN OF THE TROOPS": POLKA MARCH (1900) patriotic music sheet by Agnes M. Chambers, 6pp. 14"x 10". Pictorial cover printed in red & blue, depicting crowds cheering troops disembarking from a Boer War troopship. Published by W.H. Broome, Holborn. Most attractive and suitable for framing. *** PHOTO - see plate no. £30
1518 BADEN POWELL: 1902 (6 Jan.) 4pp. letter to Baden Powell from a clergyman in Kent enquiring about one of his parishioners in the Cape Mounted Police with fine violet oval rubber stamp "COMMANDING WESTERN DIVISION/S.A.C." and pencil annotation "ADC/ Is this man in SAC?" initialled "GBP"; filing pinholes but a rare item. *** £150
** 1519 PROPAGANDA PPCs : A quartet of german blue monochrome cards by B¸rger & Ottillie, Leipzig. i.- "Engl”nder im Wurstkessel" depicting two Boers guarding a camp fire over which is suspended an African shaped cauldron containing Britsh soldiers and the legend 'Kimberley; ii.- the Boer rout of British cavalry mounted on donkeys; iii.- Effete, tennis-playing Englishmen being attacked by German civilians and iv.- A Boer beating a young British soldier who has been stealing apples while a wailing Queen Victoria looks on. Mint condition. **** £70
MILITARY - WORLD WAR ONE
1520 ALLIED LEADERS: Group of sepia photographic portraits (150x200mm) issued as supplements to the magazine 'Ideas', inc. Smith-Dorrien, Sturdee, Fisher, Beatty, French, Jellicoe, Scott, Haig, King George, King Albert, Czar Nicholas, Grand Duke Michael, 5 VC heroes & 5 Indian princes; slight ageing, mainly fine. (14 items) **/*** £30
1521 'THE WART ILLUSTRATED': Two complete issues (Sept. 1914 / Xmas 1915) containing a multitude of short articles & pictures inc. 'The Wonderful Retreat from Mons', 'Red Cross Heroines', 'Christmas in the Trenches' etc. Paper ageing & rusting staples but otherwise in fine condition. *** £20
1522 BAIRNSFATHER - "FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE": Parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 & 7; fine apart from rusting staples and the occasional tiny cover fault. Also scarce 48pp. 1916 'The Bosch Book' by Alfred Leete (designer of the Kitchener recruiting poster); small cover faults. Illustrations very fine. (7 items). **/*** £50
1523 "OUT FOR VICTORY" SERIES OF PROPAGANDA POSTCARDS BY THE ARTIST, LEONARD RAVEN-HILL (c.1916) 11 diff. examples incl. soldiers, sailors, war workers, scouts, etc. Attractive coloured designs. No publisher indicated (British Govt?), numbered 502, 504, 505, 507, 508, 510, 513 - 517. Artist had a distinguished career as an illustrator, including 'Punch'. Plus, fine, close-up, real photo card of men at British Army Field P.O. and 2 embroidered silk postcard souvenirs for British soldiers.*** £40
** 1524 MAP OF EUROPEAN & MIDDLE EAST WAR ARENA: c1914 German colour lithographed folding wall map on thick paper (124 x 92cm) showing navigation routes, telegraph offices and cables, naval bases etc. Published by Reimer (Berlin). Some wear on folds otherwise fine. Plus German RED CROSS armband made of coarse linen with appliquÈ cross, faint rubber-stamped violet 'MEDIZINER'. Slight age discolouration but a scarce item. (2 items). *** £50
** 1525 PROPAGANDA: A trio of German PPCs- "Es ist zum heulen!" depicting the Allies as mad dogs standing their ground and howling, printed by Oesterreicher, Leipzig and postally used from a Munich 'Reservelazarette'., fine and scarce; "John Bull the Slavehandler", a colour card by Fink, Berlin, depicting a huge whip-weilding John Bull and cowering, manacled France & Italy; another Fink card showing German and Austrian soldiers kicking Italy over a precipice, watched by the powerless Allies. Three full plate propaganda photographs captioned "Die grosse Schlacht im Westen" showing German soldiers with destroyed British tanks - morale boosters in the face of the new British 'wonder-weapon' and a captured Handley-Page biplane which has been painted up with the German insignia. Plus a group of five postcard size photographs of concerts given by German POWs in the UK, one captioned 'Kur Theater Gebr. Wolff Shrewesbury', another annotated 'POW Camp Porttishall 1917/18 and most with pencilled notes of names etc. (11 items mostly fine and scarce). ***/**** £100
MILITARY - WORLD WAR TWO
** 1526 AEROPLANE RECOGNITION: 1940 (Feb) edition of an Air Ministry publication for the German Forces in concertina format folding down to pocket-book size, with photographs illustrating 17 British aircraft; two different unit cachets. Some light wear and staining to covers, otherwise fine. **/*** Plus POSTER (210 x 297mm): Deutschen Arbeitsfront propaganda poster c1940 encouraging productivity, printed in black & red, depicting a swastika within a cog-wheel, manual and office workers and the slogan "Jeder macht mit - Jeder kommt vorw”rts!"; remarkably fine, unfolded condition. **** (2 items). £30
1527 AIRDROPS - BELGIUM: Collection of propaganda leaflets in fine condition inc. 'Le Messager de la LibertÈ' newsbooks (Oct.'43 & Jan. and Feb.'44), 'De Luchtpost' (Dec.'40 & Jan.'41 plus 1941 No 11), Bomber Command's 'Haut les coeurs, Amis Belges!', two long sheets: 'La Marche du Temps' & 'Dur et Pur!', pictorial sheets etc. A fine lot. (20 items).*** £100
1528 AIRDROPS - DENMARK: Group of scarce anti-German propaganda leaflets inc. 'Hilsen fra England' (1942 No.1, Jan. 1944 & undated pictorial drop), two issues of 'Vi vil vinde' (1943 No.4 & 8) plus three other leaflets concerning British & US bombing raids. Mixed condition. (8 items). **/*** £100
1529 AIRDROPS - FRANCE: 'Le Courrier de l'Air' - a scarce broken run between 1941 (27 June) and 1944 (10 June) inc. large & small formats, illustrated supplements No.1 [Stirling bomber cut-away]plus two different versions of 3 April 1944, 'Revue de la Presse Libre' (1942-43, 6 issues) etc. An absolute goldmine of information! Most are fine with folds. Rarely offered in this quantity; no duplication. (46 items). *** £200
1530 AIRDROPS - FRANCE: Fine selection of propaganda leaflets inc. 7 illustrated booklets ('1942 L'annÈe dÈcisive', 'La Victoire en Egypte', 'La Grande Croisiere' etc.), 'Vichy laisse le Japon s'installer en Indo-Chine!', messages from Churchill, various illustrated sheets, an undated issue of 'Le Caneton dÈchainÈ' etc. Interesting material adding a different dimension to the German Occupation . (36 items).**/*** £120
1531 AIRDROPS - FRANCE: R.A.F. leaflets explaining the purpose behind the April 1943 bombing raids on the Renault & Ford factories which were supplying transport for the German Forces (4 different), a lengthy explanation of Bomber Command by Air Marshal Harris, an illustrated list of RAF bombing raids on Germany plus various other pieces referring to the R.A.F. (10 items).**/*** £60
1532 AIRDROPS - FRANCE: FREE FRENCH FORCES - Propaganda leaflets dropped by the RAF inc. a joint Churchill/De Gaulle message: 'Les Armes FranÁaises a l'Honneur', 'La France Combattante et Madagascar', pictorial sheet showing FF forces in London, 'La Marine Marchande de la France au service des Ennemis de la France', appeals to the Free French Army in Africa etc. Scarce & interesting. (10 items). **/*** £60
1533 AIRDROPS - FRANCE: COLLABORATION/RESISTANCE - Group of small propaganda leaflets inc. 'Collaboration ou Expulsion', 'Conseils aux FranÁais', 'Message aux Populations de la France OccupÈe', 'FranÁais de la Zone Non-OccupÈe', Radio FranÁaise de Londres frequency & schedule etc. (7 items).**/*** £48
1534 AIRDROPS - FRANCE: U.S. propaganda leaflets, most featuring coloured Arms of the USA or the Stars & Stripes, inc. the texts of messages from President Roosevelt (3) or Eisenhower (dramatic 1944 'LES ARMEES ALLIEES DEBARQUENT'), statement on Madagascar etc. (6 items).**/*** £30
1535 AIRDROPS - BRITISH ANTI-GERMAN PROPAGANDA, 1939-45: Four albums containing a fine collection of British air-dropped leaflets with many unusual early examples from September 1939 - Spring 1940 inc. 'Wolkiger Beobachter' (4), 'Ruhr Arbeiter' (3), 'Hamburger Fremdes Blatt', many items masquerading as 'official' notices, 'Luftpost' (9), leaf-shaped 'Bie Bl”tter fallen' and better later examples inc. the 1942 Kiel U-Boat Memorial ('Das Leben eines U-Bootmanns'), pictorial sheets with sub-types etc. A superb basis for further development. (96 items). **/*** £400
1536 AIRDROPS - SOVIET PROPAGANDA FOR GERMAN TROOPS: A substantial range of morale-sapping propaganda dropped over German troops by the Russian Airforce, each with a bilingual safe-conduct pass encouraging troops to surrender; slight duplication but an interesting group inc. two cartoon sheets showing Hitler pushing a blindfold soldier into an abyss & Goebbels imprisoning Germania in his lies, plus pictorial examples showing POWs enjoying leisure time, dead soldiers with Hitler looking on, a crippled soldier watching officers drinking, a bereaved mother destroying a portrait of Hitler etc. (61 items). **/*** PHOTO - see plate no. £220
1537 AIRDROPS - SOVIET ANTI-GERMAN PROPAGANDA: Selection of Russian - produced leaflets , mainly newsletter types reporting morale-sapping information, most designed for German troops but with civilian items included, plus various 'Sondermeldung' sheets from the Winter of 1942-43, Moscow German radio timetable, 1942 examples of 'Front Nachrichten' (3) & 'Auslands Nachrichten' (4) etc. (49 items). **/*** £180
1538 AIRDROPS - GERMAN FORCES IN WESTERN EUROPE: Miscellany of leaflets dropped on German troops in Tunisia, Italy & France plus an unusual examples inc. an appeal to Austrian civilians to break free of German domination, 4pp 'Was der Deutsche wissen muss' illustrating German soldiers' involvement in atrocities, six issues of 'Frontpost - Ausgabe S¸d' (mainly late 1944 featuring the Allied advance through France) etc. Very slight duplication. (20 items). **/*** £80
1539 AIRDROPS - SOVIET ANTI-GERMAN PROPAGANDA: Small group of leaflets designed to encourage German troops to surrender to the Red Army, mainly text-based with safe conduct passes but inc. a civivlian example - 'Deutsche Frauen und M”dchen!' - urging German women to pressurise their men to stop fighting before Xmas 1941. (17 items).*** £48
1540 AIRDROPS - ITALY: Propaganda leaflets dropped over Italy & Italian Forces inc. evacuation warning to civilians in Tripolitania, a fine coloured cartoon of the 'boot' of Italy giving Mussolini a kick, an issue of 'Foglio Volante', 4pp illustrated 'La Fine in Africa', 'Italia Combatte' (Oct.'44), text of the Yalta Declaration etc. Italian material is uncommon. (20 items).**/*** £100
1541 AIRDROPS - JAPAN: Scarce quartet of anti-Japanese propaganda leaflets inc. a fine pictorial example showing army officers carousing with German soldiers while the ordinary infantryman looks on, another showing the sky full of 'planes, a small safe-conduct pass and an item (in Burmese?) illustrating a Japanese soldier supervising native workers. The last with a few faults otherwise fine. (4 items). **/*** £50
1542 AIRDROPS - NETHERLANDS: 'Die Vliegende Hollander' - a scarce broken run of this detailed newsheet dropped over Holland by the RAF inc. a fine 8pp copy of 1943 No12 and then 35 single sheet newsprint issues between 1944 No.54 & 1945 No.138 plus a fine 1945 'Laaste Nummer' with colour masthead and 'Duitschland Capituleert' headline. Mixed condition. (37 items). **/*** £160
1543 AIRDROPS - NETHERLANDS: 1940-43 Group of airdropped anti-German propaganda inc. a message from the exiled Queen Wilhelmina , 'Kerstgroet 1940', a 1941 portrait of the Queen with illustration sof the Royal Family, 3 news-packed issues of 'De Wervelwind' (May & Dec.'42 and May '43), 'De Luchtpost' (1942 No1) and various single sheets inc. two scarcer items concerning the fate of the Dutch E. Indies. (12 items). **/*** £75
1544 AIRDROPS - MISCELLANY: An interesting group inc. items intended for the Afrika Korps, German troops in Italy & the Caucasus inc. safe-conduct surrender passes in Polish & German, a Czech item, trilingual German/Greek/Italian broadsheet etc. plus a later item in Greek featuring a map of Cyprus. (11 items).**/*** £60
1545 PHOTO ALBUM OF SEAMAN EDWARD WHITELOCK ON BOARD THE ILL-FATED HMS "DARING" ON THE CHINA STATION, LOST WHEN SUNK BY U-BOAT (1939) some 75 photos mounted in contemporary album 10"x 16" with hand drawn decorative frontis. More than half, depict fellow seamen, scenes on board & naval vessels. The remainder are scenes in Amoy, Swatow, Hong Kong, Wei Hai Wei, Manila & Bali with a pictorial "Crossing the Equator" certificate awarded to Whitelock on 12 April 1939. Plus, his 2 uniformed portrait photos & Naval Memorials Register containing his name. The 21-year old rating was killed with all but 5 of his shipmates when the 'Daring' was sunk off north Scotland on 18 Feb. 1940. *** £100
1546 BRITISH WAR OFFICE: MILITARY TRAINING BOOKLETS (1940-1943) 12 different, varying from 12pp. to 62pp. 7"x 4‡" with printed wrappers. "Not to be published". Specialised subjects include: anti-tank mines, sten machine carbines, bomb reconnaissance, snipers, patrolling, AA artillery, spigot mortars, rifles, fieldcraft, etc. *** £40
1547 ALLIED AERIAL PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS (1941-1943) 20 different examples in varying formats, incl. 12 pictorial. Dropped by air over German occupied Europe. German text (except 2 Italian). Code nos. G.4, 10, 12, 14, 20, 22, 28, 34, 39, 58, 63 , 64 & 66; I.3 & I.5; 50/38, 501, 515 & 519 & one uncoded. *** £80
1548 HMSO PUBLICATIONS ON THE WAR (1941-1945) 12 diff., illustrated booklets: "The Battle of Britain"; "Front Line", "The Highland Division", "The Campaign in Greece & Crete", "Roof Over Britain", "Combined Operations", "East of Malta, West of Sussex", "The Royal Marines", "The Australian Army at War", "The Air Battle of Malta", "His Majesty's Submarines" & "RAF Middle East". *** £40
1549 ALLIED AERIAL PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS (1941-1943) 8 different examples (duplicates of those in larger collection). Code nos. G.14, 28, 34, 39 & 66; I.5; 501 & one uncoded. Dropped by air over German occupied Europe. *** £30
1550 ALLIED AERIAL PROPAGANDA BOOKLETS (1943) three examples in the format of miniature magazines, containing well illustrated reports & comment on Allied progress. Each 32pp. - 48pp. 5"x 4". Dropped by air over German occupied Europe : a) "The Road to Tunis" (G.37) German text. b) "The Other Side" (G.47) German text. c) The Month that Changed the War" (H.26) Dutch text. *** £40
1551 AMERICAN AIR CREW 'SILK' SURVIVAL MAPS OF NEW GUINEA FOR USE IN THE PACIFIC WAR (c.1944) two different double-sided maps, each 13"x 16", depicting northern coastal regions of New Guinea and islands to the north. Produced by the National Aeronautical Chart Institute, Washington D.C. Colour printed with prevailing winds and currents. *** £40
** 1552 PALESTINE - PASSES: Scarce group of four passes issued to civilians by the British Military Authorities comprising 1939 Temporary Road/Rail Pass for a journey from Tiberias to Haifa, 1940 pass to visitJewish Settlements, 1944 Curfew Pass with fine 'Jerusalem Office' cachet and a typewritten pass giving permission to use WD cars. Fine. Plus AUSCHWITZ - "M¸tzen ab -eine reportage aus der Strafkompaniedes K.Z. Auschwitz". 96 pp p/b book (in German) by Zenon Rozanski (1948); dramatic cover design of camp inmate. Fine condition though with inevitable paper ageing. (5 items). *** £40
** 1553 THIRD REICH - FOREIGNERS WORKBOOK: 40pp card-bound identity book issued in January 1945 to a Hungarian telegraph operator, with photograph and work record - his last transfer was to Vienna in April 1945. Very fine, almost unused condition. Also POSTWAR PASSES, 1946-47: An interesting group of five printed or typewritten passes issued by British Occupation Forces comprising Rome AACHQ, MEF Palestine Training Depot, Transit Camp movement order issued at HQ Vienna, travel permit for Palestinian civilian to travel to Italy via Austria and DAAG pass issued to RE soldier. (6 items). *** £50
MILITARY - POST WORLD WAR TWO
1554 PHOTO ARCHIVE OF FRANZ KOPP, YOUNG AUSTRIAN NAZI S.A. MEMBER, SHOT BY COMMUNISTS IN BERLIN ON THE EVE OF THE REICHSTAG ELECTIONS (1933) 12 items presented by family to the 'Gauarchiv' in Austrian Carinthia in 1941, mostly captioned in manuscript, some with handstamps: a) commem.uniformed portrait card. b) five picture postcards (3 with plain backs) depicting funeral processions in Berlin & Carinthia. c) six photos incl. uniformed portraits, torchlit vigil and funeral. Nazi propaganda turned Kopp into a martyr. *** £60
MONEY BOXES
1555 SELECTION issued 1950 or earlier by Post Office Savings Bank, Midland Bank and Lloyds Bank (2) plus a wooden box in the shape of a drop leaf table. (5 boxes). **/*** £30
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
1556 'The Present State of Europe or The Historical & Political Monthly Mercury' (Oct.1710) 40pp of fascinating European news - disbound & dusty but complete; 'Coal and Iron' (Jan.1893) 26pp with fine advertisements with steel-engraved ills.; c1880 16pp 'Penny Dreadful' containing 'The Phantom Curse' & 'Mr. Tigg's Troubles' in paper covers with 'nightmare' woodcut - covers fragile/loose but text fine plus 2 issues of 'The Mirror' (1827/29) with pieces on Bristol Cathedral & Cumberland. (4 items).**/*** £40
1557 'NORTHAMPTON MERCURY' (April 1720) 10pp (all loose) of national/international news inc. assaults, murders, transportation etc plus an advertisement for the 'Northampton Flying Waggon' (London in two days!); also an 1857 issue of the ILN and the front page of an 1865 issue, both with newspaper stamps plus a small selection of cut-out stamps (13) on two leaves. (16 items). **/*** £30
1558 1795/6 Single issues of "The Times", "The Sun", "The Star" & "The Doncaster, Retford and Gainsborough Gazette" with news of French Revolution etc., "The Tolono Herald" (Illinois, U.S.A.) for 16 July 1875, 1926 General Strike issues of "The British Gazette" souvenir reprint of 8 issues bound together, parts of a wartime "Radio Times" and two 1950's French papers.(Qty.). ** £40
1559 INTRODUCTION OF ‡d STAMPS: 'The Times' for 12th Sept., 1870 with report that "with effect from the 1st October...halfpenny postage labels and newspaper wrappers...will be introduced...anything bearing a halfpenny stamp posted before the 1st will be treated as unpaid" (disbound and lacks front cover but otherwise very fine) and FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR further five issues of "The Times" between 14th & 19th Sept., 1870 (also disbound and lacking front pages) with interesting accounts of the early days of the Siege of Paris. (6 items). **/*** £90
1000-1079
1080-1159
1160-1239
1240-1319
1320-1399
1400-1479
1480-1559
1560-1639
1640-1719
1720-1799
1800-1879
1880-1959
1960-2039
2040-2064
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